Through Handlens and Binoculars

Here in Indiana, clovers ( Trifolium spp.) don't get people very excited. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that a clove...

Last May on Get Your Botany On! , I posted about Indian Paintbrush ( Castilleja coccinea ) that I had seen recently in Lake County, Indiana...

For several years while botanizing in Indiana, I had hoped to run across Frog Orchid ( Coeloglossum viride ). Vegetatively, this species can...

Translations of Latin names of plants can sometimes be a bit misleading. Take, for example, Calochortus gunnisonii var. gunnisonii . Caloc...

In my recent post about Fairy Slipper , I mentioned that I saw several interesting plants characteristic of montane forest before finding a ...

One of the plants that I had hoped to see while in Colorado was Fairy Slipper ( Calypso bulbosa ). Unfortunately, this orchid typically flow...

Were you able to figure out the plant that I was looking at in the photograph in my previous post? Here's a closer look... ... and here ...

Alright... I've had enough of seeing that "tacky sweater" photograph everytime I look at our blog, so I needed to post a more ...

As you will see as I continue to post photos from our trip to Colorado in July, the subalpine and alpine meadows were painted with a pallett...

A somewhat common plant that we saw in the alpine life zone in Colorado was Snowball Saxifrage ( Saxifraga rhomboidea ), a member of the fam...